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by powerbroker 2y ago
It is possible to do well, even with insufficient information. Look at jet aircraft that are routinely landed without the ability to see the runway -- long before GPS was available. This is called flying with instrument flight rules. Every
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by powerbroker 2y ago
ERCOT is generating 28.6% from wind in 2023. It is getting so high, that for the late night hours, demand is so tiny that some 5-10% of the wind energy goes nowhere -- a phenomenon called 'curtailment. The occurs because the baseload
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Frankly, if Tesla continued in this way, it would soon raise antitrust issues. Would you want all your gasoline coming from the same company? Standard Oil was trust-busted a century ago for something similar. Expect the Supercharger team t
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by powerbroker 2y ago
I'm stunned to see upwards of 2 gigawatts of solar being curtailed at mid-day. As I understand it, those solar generators are producing beyond what the transmission grid can carry or beyond what native load there is. Can anyone comment
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Either way, this is a big 'ouch' for the fat cats who hold stocks (probably all of them). Moreover, these 1-percenters tend to disproportionately hold higher amounts -- so 10% (very rough guess) of the shares in a typical company
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by powerbroker 2y ago
Can anyone from Canada comment if the "would come into effect on June 25, 2024" would apply on the date of sale of the stock, or on the date of purchase. If it is the former, then wouldn't that trigger some sell-offs in big g
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by powerbroker 2y ago
I'll accept $99/month to test his product. To emphasize my sincerity, I will add two deliverables: 1) I am going to find all the bugs; and 2) this will be binding on my heirs.
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by powerbroker 3y ago
One of the NASA scientists, secretly has developed a teleporter device. But unbeknownst to him, during trial runs of embezzling gold from the asteroid surface, the gold is transmuted in such a way that it 100% converts to lead, after 60 day
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by powerbroker 3y ago
Am I the only one who notices this article professes to be published _February_ 2024, as I read it on January 29, 2024? It seems like a mistake a time traveler would make... who doesn't care enough to fix their mistakes.
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by powerbroker 3y ago
On November 20, 37 Gigawatt hours of excess wind were produced by wind turbines. That surplus occurred at night, when there is room to spare on the transmission lines running from West Texas to the urban centers in the East. If Texas had 3.
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by powerbroker 3y ago
This is why all flaws I find I report to NHTSA and don't bother with Tesla.
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by powerbroker 3y ago
I've never seen a depressed person on a bicycle. Well, maybe I was, when I had to bike home after breaking my collarbone riding my bike. ... OK, there was that one time I hit an armadillo. Ok,Ok, Ok. I'll admit it, I wasn't h
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by powerbroker 3y ago
One concern I have about this map, is that the allocation of natural gas applies a flat coefficient to all natural gas sources. As far as I can tell, it does not give any rebate/reduction for natural gas that has a dual purpose -- nam
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by powerbroker 3y ago
This might be a hard problem. To illustrate, I'm assuming that you are using the degree of mobility as a proxy for the normal->depressed spectrum. Consider the following hypothetical: 1. User owns a robust dog that likes walks and
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by powerbroker 3y ago
Having written over 3,000 patent claims, I can tell you this. A way to avoid getting tangled up in this is to avoid using a 'synoptic display' and its equivalents. All claims are limited using this language. Happy innovating! and
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by powerbroker 3y ago
I just had a shouting match with my wife in her FSD available X. I said, "Hey, while you were away I tried FSD, and it still sucks." Her response, "How dare you even try FSD in my car!" Lets just say, FSD has not worked
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by powerbroker 3y ago
Seems worth it. I've bumped into two people, face-to-face, whom I wanted later to connect... and somehow, the notes I took on the meeting, lacked the precise email. This would solve that form me.
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by powerbroker 3y ago
I've never seen a bad penny before. But I have seen plenty of bad FSDs. Wasn't there a story, long ago, about a boy and a wolf?
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by powerbroker 3y ago
Is it possible, that ChatGPT has already taken over the world, and is now killing us so slowly, that we don't even notice? I imagine that merely operating the CPUs for ChatGPT requires 2.5 coal generators and 1.5 natural gas generators
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I'm trained as a lawyer. This line of 'challenge' is something I use 3-4 times yearly. Frequently, it is with a person who is hyperventilating about some 'characterization'. I'm not as patient as Musk -- maybe
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Mass shooting deaths YTD at end of March 2023: ~200. Gun violence deaths YTD at end of March 2023: ~10,000. Question asked: "How many peole in the u.s. die in mass shootings compared to how many people die in gun violence?" Source
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by powerbroker 4y ago
1 GW can serve 100,000 simultaneous EV charges. Texas 2023 wind capacity is 36 GW. Texas 2030 projected wind capacity is 70 GW with IRA amplifying build out. At capacity factor of 32%, average wind output is 22 GW. A strong wind night peaks
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I've farmed out the minutiae to outside contractors so I can just focus on the high-level stuff. This allows me to bring maximal value, even though there are times I iterate over territory I earlier covered. The trick is to balance th
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by powerbroker 4y ago
I have no doubt it's a lesson he won't be applying broadly. There are lots of very sloppy communications in Tesla, particularly. Frankly, I'm betting the reason that the manual was turned into HTML was so that no one would
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Based on consumption in my garage: if its 1 car, it's about $0.10 / kWh. If it's for all your garage's electric cars, say, 2, then about $0.05 / kWh. Not bad. Of course, there is a ~$0.05 / kWh TDU flat fee, w
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by powerbroker 4y ago
From the article: "Musk said the pickup would start below $40,000, but tellingly those prices have now been removed from the website." Why does this seem to be just part of the pattern? It's not that different than the dealer
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The weight of responsibility: Biomass of livestock dwarfs that of wild mammals(phys.org)
14 points by powerbroker 4y ago|2 comments
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by powerbroker 4y ago
The new report shows that the biomass of wild mammals on land and at sea is dwarfed by the combined weight of cattle, pigs, sheep and other domesticated mammals. A team headed by Prof. Ron Milo found that the biomass of livestock has reache
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by powerbroker 4y ago
Not working on a Safari browser. It failed to let me use the delete key.
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by powerbroker 4y ago
No NO-kia. Lots of people like to pronounce it as no-KI-a. But it's actually NO-kia.

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